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WHO: Kotetsu, and other folks interested in seeing a darned inspiring Justice League Building.
WHAT: Getting this thing up and running!
WHEN: Various times.
NOTES: srsly you should probably help this guy.

He'd offered Anemoi to others, of course, but it didn't stop the slow memory trickle that apparently happened naturally around here. Having him remember a particularly notable incident from when he and Tomoe met -- not to mention a certain big lug named Antonio -- isn't really helping that overall melancholy that comes with having your chief end goal ripped away from you permanently by reality.

Thankfully, there's a distraction. A great, big, hurking distraction.

Kotetsu's throwing himself into the fixing up of the new Justice League building with gusto -- a quick patchup there, dusting here. He's working with such a passion that it would be easy to mistake it for whole-hearted enthusiasm for the project rather than a way to distract himself from slipping off to a bar to get so smashed he forgets things again.

So you might be helping him with:

1. Painting! Wallpaper! All the stuff that makes a building look, you know, not condemned or something. He probably missed a spot or two though.

2. Furniture! Geez, people throw out a lot of perfectly good furniture at the dump. What's up with that? Just a little fixing here and there and it'd be good as new.

3. Lunch! ...hey, a guy needs a lunch break sometimes. Man, he really likes his mayo.

4. Finding out how freaking expensive security fences are! Well, crap.

How does a guy his age have this much energy, anyway?

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"There are different types?"

Joachim has his areas of expertise, but advanced tool use is not among them.

...well then. "I'll just bring a few and we'll see how it goes, huh?" he asks, sighing before dragging out a few select tools.

Oh. So the wrench can't get a grip on the bolts if it's too large, and it won't fit at all if it's too small...

"...Well, third time's the charm!"

Or not. Dear god, how many sizes are there.

"I take it you're not normally much of a handyman," Kotetsu comments as he passes along each wrench. "How'd you usually handle stuff like this?"

"Who knows? By breaking it apart?" Shrug. Another miss.

"Besides, I'm not used to all of these new inventions of yours. I'd be fine with a plain hammer and nails- Oho!" Perfect fit! And here's one fence section free.

"I guess you wouldn't really remember, huh? Sorry, silly question -- hey, there we go!" Kotetsu goes to grab next section. "I'll haul this one back, you work on the next one!"

"You got it! ...Hold on a minute, how did you end up the one doing all the heavy lifting?"

At least now that part of the fence is already free, he's having an easier time of it.

"I dunno. Funny how things work. Don't worry, I'm not as weak as I look without the power on, you know!"

So he says, but he definitely looks a little awkward trying to hold that thing.

Yeah, this isn't too bad now that he's getting the hang of it!

"...Are you sure you don't need a hand over there?"

"No no, I got it! I -- " *clang* "I got it now! Yeah!"

He looks REALLY goofy wobbling around with that thing.

"...Say, why don't we switch? I could use the exercise!"

He has just enough tact not to ask if Kotetsu's going to throw out his back doing that.

"Oh well if you insist!"

He agreed to that WAY too fast. He drops the fence piece and heads back to Joachim. "Here, lemme have the wrench."

Joachim tags him in and sets to work stacking fence sections on the van roof. With one hand, because the chance to blatantly show off is an irresistible one.

Surely no further obstacles to success lie in their path.

Surely, indeed.

"Hey, how'd you find out about this place anyway?" asks Kotetsu, grunting as he works at a particularly stubborn bolt.

"I go out searching in the ruins now and then. I haven't found any anemoi yet, but there's still some pretty neat stuff out there! It's a shame about the robots; this place looks like it could have some real prizes."

Some of the metal posts are dug in pretty deep, while others have been loosened by time. Joachim hauls one of the former out with some effort.

"Huh, how about that! Could do without robots, though, especially since they'd probably all be hostile and try to shoo off intruders or something." A rare moment of genre savviness from our hero, it seems. "We don't need anything besides the fence stuff right now anyway. Maybe later, huh?"

They're doing a pretty good cleanup job here! It's... surprisingly anticlimactic. Or it would be if Kotetsu had been expecting anything anyway.